Bryan Brown v. Elizabeth Bowman

CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.

This case involves the scope of the Rooker-Feldman doctrine and whether the district court properly applied that doctrine to appellant’s 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claims. In April 2007, appellant Bryan Brown applied for admission to the Indiana Bar. As part of his application process, the Indiana Board of Law Examiners (BLE) requested that Brown attend hearings to investigate his application and also required Brown to be evaluated by mental health professionals. The BLE ultimately denied Brown’s admission application and, after exhausting his appeals to the Indiana Supreme Court…